Re:Two years of Rust
by pjmlp on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @02:56AM
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Java and its counterpart .NET did indeed replace C and C++ in 80% of enterprise applications.
The remaining 20% are stuff like device drivers or high performance libraries that are easier to write in C or C++, or legacy MFC applications.
Also if you look at operating systems like Android, Google makes it very explicit that you need a very good reason to down into the NDK dungeons, to the point that the set of allowed libraries only cover the use cases of 3D graphics and bringing native libraries into Android.
Likewise when Android Things was still called Brillo, the plan was to re-write the Android Framework in C++, instead they ended up bringing ART into Brillo.
The remaining 20% are stuff like device drivers or high performance libraries that are easier to write in C or C++, or legacy MFC applications.
Also if you look at operating systems like Android, Google makes it very explicit that you need a very good reason to down into the NDK dungeons, to the point that the set of allowed libraries only cover the use cases of 3D graphics and bringing native libraries into Android.
Likewise when Android Things was still called Brillo, the plan was to re-write the Android Framework in C++, instead they ended up bringing ART into Brillo.